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squarepusher
01-11-2011, 12:30 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_baltimore_police_shooting

Baltimore officer was killed by fellow officers

Police: 2 dead, 4 hurt in Md. nightclub shooting Play Video AP – Police: 2 dead, 4 hurt in Md. nightclub shooting
By BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press Ben Nuckols, Associated Press – Mon Jan 10, 8:37 pm ET

BALTIMORE – Baltimore police say that fellow officers fired the gun shots that killed a plainclothes officer during a melee outside a nightclub.

A 22-year-old civilian was also killed in the early Sunday morning shooting.

Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefield III said on Monday that no civilians fired any shots.

Officer William Torbit Jr. was on duty in plainclothes when he responded to a report of trouble at the club. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi (goo-lee-EHL-mee) says Torbit was trying to break up a fight when he was attacked and pulled out his weapon to defend himself.

At some point after that, officers opened fire, killing the officer. Police say Torbit was wearing his badge but there were no other indicators he was police.

The officers who fired are on administrative leave.





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Jeremy
01-11-2011, 12:46 AM
So if they knew he was a cop, they wouldn't fire? Why is it ok to shoot non-cops?

Uriel999
01-11-2011, 12:49 AM
lol and of course are on administrative leave...I am sure it is paid too.

aGameOfThrones
01-11-2011, 04:04 AM
So... 4 less than in Arizona? No media outrage? Strange!

squarepusher
01-11-2011, 10:24 AM
So... 4 less than in Arizona? No media outrage? Strange!

shut up, mundane!

aGameOfThrones
01-11-2011, 10:56 AM
shut up, mundane!

Yes, Master. :p

oyarde
01-11-2011, 03:23 PM
UH , why are Balmor police randomly shooting into a melee and or crowd outside a night club ?

Brooklyn Red Leg
01-11-2011, 03:31 PM
UH , why are Balmor police randomly shooting into a melee and or crowd outside a night club ?

Good question. Anyone wanna take bets that this was no accident and that the undercover officer was potentially about to leak something?

Liberty_Mike
01-11-2011, 03:34 PM
So... 4 less than in Arizona? No media outrage? Strange!

Excellent point!

fisharmor
01-11-2011, 03:35 PM
How much ya'll wanna bet that this time internal affairs WON'T declare that they acted within department guidelines?

aGameOfThrones
01-11-2011, 05:17 PM
This story makes this post all the more true:


If the Arizona shooter was wearing a police uniform, he would now be put on paid leave (vacation) for a few months while an internal investigation pissed away a fortune in taxpayers' money to come to the conclusion that he felt his sacred person threatened by something and was within department rules to gun down everyone in sight. And the maudlin media would remind us that only a thin blue line of selfless public servants stands between civilization and the Mongol hordes of crazed gun owners. It would be pointed out that he was vetted by experts and anointed with a government issued uniform, badge and gun. So, who are we mere mundanes to now question his judgment?

If the shooter was instead a Congressman who voted to fund America's criminal wars for another year, he would be showered with bipartisan praise for supporting the President's mission to spread the blessings of democracy while keeping America safe by facilitating the ongoing mass murder of dark-skinned foreigners. And the media would remind us that the government's foreign policy experts have ingeniously created millions of jobs whose sole purpose it is to produce things that blow up and then need to be replaced over and over again.

If he was a secret government agent reporting directly to the President, we would be informed that the President had just exercised his new power of judge, jury and executioner and had ordered the assassination of some Americans in Arizona whom he felt were a threat to national security. The entire matter is now classified and any further discussion will be regarded as treason. And the media would remind us that in questions of national security, the office of his Holiness, the President, automatically confers infallibility to its occupant.

If he was a member of a swat team which gunned down a family for refusing to leave a home seized for failure to pay property taxes, he and his squad mates would receive medals for unflinchingly carrying out orders. And the media would remind us of the sacred social contract arising from majority rule. If two wolves vote to eat a lamb for lunch, then the lamb is lunch. Besides, how will the legal monopoly publik skool sistems improov dere teeching without more money which, of course, must be harvested at gunpoint because no one in his right mind would voluntarily pay for such dreck?

But, alas, the Arizona shooter was a mere nobody and will be treated as the common criminal which he is. He can't whitewash mass murder with the authority of a uniform or the power of an office, or the obedience to law. But this being America, no one is ever held fully accountable for his actions. Trembling slave mentalities will bray that inanimate objects, guns in this case, must be punished and that tens of millions of law abiding citizens must have their access to guns further restricted.

It has yet to be widely noted that the Arizona shooter has stated that his favorite books are Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto. This will at first cause cognitive dissonance in some political circles. Eventually the opinion will coalesce that unrestricted exercise of First Amendment rights is also dangerous and that access to certain books must be licensed by government employees. In the mean time, the political class and its armed-to-the-teeth shock troops, already corrupted by too much power and on their way to being corrupted absolutely by absolute power, are being cheered on by the slave mentalities.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?275193-If-the-Arizona-shooter-was-wearing-a-police-uniform-he-would-now-be-put-on-paid-leave...

RideTheDirt
01-11-2011, 05:52 PM
So... 4 less than in Arizona? No media outrage? Strange!
Great point!

Tinnuhana
01-11-2011, 05:56 PM
Could it be they saw him draw his gun and assumed he was going to use it for reasons other than self-defense? I couldn't see them firing into a crowd if a weapon was not visible...not impossible, but...it's good to look for their logic/reasons for them opening fire.

aGameOfThrones
01-11-2011, 06:02 PM
Could it be they saw him draw his gun and assumed he was going to use it for reasons other than self-defense? I couldn't see them firing into a crowd if a weapon was not visible...not impossible, but...it's good to look for their logic/reasons for them opening fire.

Apparently they didn't have the restraint Joe Zamudio had. Reference: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?275253-Tucson-Shooting-Hero-Joe-Zamudio-Sets-Ed-Schultz-Right-On-Owning-A-Pistol